This weekend (Friday 16 – Sunday 18 June 2017) is the Great Get Together, which was initiated by Brendan Cox in memory of his wife, and my friend, Jo Cox MP. Jo was in the process of setting up the Loneliness Commission when she was murdered and this fantastic initiative is now being run in her memory.

I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of a 28-year-old rough sleeper Roxy in Huddersfield last month. Roxy was a constituent of mine who, according to the Examiner, had lived on the streets for many years and died after contracting pneumonia.

Roxy’s death is not a standalone case and is instead symbolic of the endemic problem of homelessness throughout Britain.

In my capacity as Chair of the Maths and Numeracy APPG, I am joining the call for a new numeracy benchmark for all young people, to ensure another route for teenagers who are written off as maths failures.